But the flowers are beautiful.

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My baby brought me those today; they smell absolutely lovely. He said it was for what I did last night, which was my first speaking engagement in years. No nerves, really; the bigger problem was how little my body's able to cope with sitting in one place for a while [or all the walking, either].

Which means that today was miserable. Feet are in constant pain; muscles spasming constantly; other pain levels ratcheted up to 11. Which is why I do this so rarely; people think it's nothing, but literally everything wipes me out anymore. A trip to the grocery store, standing in line at the pharmacy, whatever. This is my life now.

But the flowers are beautiful. Dawn was pretty gorgeous, too, lots of low dark clouds limned in silvery iridescence. No rain until this evening, but then it poured. And they made some progress on sealing the wood today, so there's that.

There's also the more than 2 grand, cash, we're out this week, between it and the new mill.

And it's been a ridiculously expensive year already [on top of last year]. If we can just continue to make regular weekly sales, we'll be fine . . . but we need to make those sales now. There's a lot of gorgeous new work up [and there will be more to come, as he fits it in around the commissions currently under way, a few of the most recent dozen-plus done, 4 more under way at the moment], and that includes several pairs of brand new earrings that are at a more modest price point than most of this work, but I've got to sell them for it to make any difference. And to that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here; 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need this to be a better month than what we've had so far this year.

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